Where Are You?
If you’re living in a foreign country where English might not be spoken, undoubtedly you’re finding it difficult to learn and practice on a regular basis. Here are four simple tips for helping you to learn English no matter where you may live.
Photo: A Cuna Indian woman selling hand-sewn crafts in Santiago, Panama sips Coca-Cola during a pause in sales
1. Find a study Partner or Group
“Birds of a feather flock together” as the saying goes. Try to find an English language study partner or practice group – even one online. Look and post in forums, EFL teaching sites, chat rooms or just plain advertise for an English language study partner or group, preferably in your area. How about a family member, classmate or someone at a local store, shop, business or institute? Look in the classified of English language magazines too.
2. Learn to Accept Taking Many Small Steps
You’ve heard the expression, “Rome wasn’t built in a day”, haven’t you? Well if you haven’t, you have now. Learn to appreciate making small advances in developing your English language skills. Learning just a couple or even a few words a day will soon add up to a substantially increased vocabulary in almost no time at all. Work on just one verb’s forms this week. Next week move on to another, then another and another, etc.
3. Be Sure to Allow Yourself to Have Fun
You’re absolutely allowed to enjoy learning English too, you know. Play games online in English or find one or more of the numerous “activity books” available worldwide that allow you to practice vocabulary-building, letter or word unscrambles and a myriad of other verbal-linguistic English language skills. Board games will be a great help too. “Sorry”, “Scrabble” or “Monopoly” anyone?
4. Get Help Where ever You Can Find It
Whatever you do, don’t be bashful in looking or accepting help in acquiring English as a second or foreign language. It can be a long and lonely road to learning a foreign language like English, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be. Use as many different activities, exercises, techniques, strategies and methods as you possibly can. If you need more suggestions, further help or just want to practice your English language writing skills a bit, you can always drop me a quick e-mail and ask a question or two. I’m always happy to help.
Don’t Ever Give Up
Finally, don’t ever stop in your quest to acquire your new language. Nobody ever said that learning English, or any other foreign language for that matter, was an easy task. And if someone does tell you that – well, it simply isn’t true. Just keep plugging away and making progressive steps – great and small. You’ll continually improve your English language communicative skills faster and sooner than you might think.
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Larry M. Lynch is an English language teaching and learning expert author and university professor in Cali, Colombia. Now YOU too can live your dreams in paradise, find romance, high adventure and get paid while travelling for free. For more information on the lucrative, fascinating field of teaching English as a Foreign Language, get your copy of his no-cost, full multi-media, hypertext-linked pdf ebook, “If You Want to Teach English Abroad, Here’s What You Need to Know” by sending an e-mail to lynchlarrym@gmail.com with "free ELT Ebook" in the subject line. Need professional, original content and photos or images for your blog, newsletter, e-zine or website? Want more information, have a comment or special request? Contact the author by e-mail for a prompt response.
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Learning English is easier in a group or by pairs, with a textbook or worksheets but, it is not the same when a learner studies alone or in a place without any resources to practice what he or she has learned at school, institute or university. It is too difficult for learners improve the knowledge about a foreign language and it is not enough with notes taken from a class or listen to the teacher’s explanations, no, learners must search, read from more than one source, practice what learn, look for somebody who helps them with the homework assignments and so on but, if they have no choices to get better at learning because of the poor resources bank, their knowledge is always going to be lower than the students who have tools like Internet, libraries, books, etc. It never can be the reason to give up studying and learning English because if the interest for learning is bigger than a piece of paper or a pencil, learners are going to get the successful no matter the way.
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